Summary Simon Sharwood (The Register) warns that recent reports of Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discussing immortality — alongside rapid advances in AI, large language models and brain–computer interfaces (BCIs)…
Google Hit With $3.45 Billion EU Antitrust Fine Over Adtech Practices Summary The European Commission has fined Alphabet’s Google $3.45 billion over anti‑competitive behaviour in its adtech business. Regulators say…
Geoffrey Hinton: ‘AI Will Make a Few People Much Richer and Most People Poorer’ Summary Nobel laureate and neural-net pioneer Geoffrey Hinton tells the Financial Times that AI is likely…
Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms Key Points • Anthropic is blocking access to its AI services for companies majority-owned by entities from countries such as China,…
Columbia Tries Using AI To Cool Off Student Tensions Summary Columbia University is testing Sway, an AI debate programme developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, to try to de-escalate…
Rising River Temperatures Threaten Paris’s Water-Based Building Cooling Network Summary Paris runs a district cooling network that pumps Seine river water through heat exchangers to cool around 800 buildings, including…
Scientists Tap ‘Secret’ Fresh Water Under the Ocean, Raising Hopes For a Thirsty World Summary A multinational research effort (Expedition 501) has extracted freshwater samples from beneath the Atlantic seabed…
Anthropic Agrees To Pay Record $1.5 Billion To Settle Authors’ AI Lawsuit Summary Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion into a class-action fund to settle litigation brought…
Boffins Build Automated Android Bug Hunting System Summary Researchers at Nanjing University and the University of Sydney have developed an AI agent, A2, that automates discovery and validation of vulnerabilities…
Firefox Ending 32-bit Linux Support Next Year Summary Mozilla has announced it will stop producing 32‑bit Linux builds of Firefox in 2026. Version 144 will be the last standard release…
